Re: [PATCH] firmware: Automatically pull missing FW files

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Aug 20 2014 - 14:34:53 EST


On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 11:21 -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> Hi,
> When a binary FW file is not present in the firmware dir then the
> build will fail.

I'm not sure I understand. Precisely what fails?

I don't like this patch very much. We should be removing the legacy
firmware/ directory entirely, not patching it up.

Userspace is responsible for providing the firmware, and it should
generally come from an entirely separate checkout of the linux-firmware
repository.

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dwmw2

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